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Liliales
Liliales is an order of flowering plants in the monocots, containing about 1,300 species including true lilies and tulips, with nectaries on the tepals and anthers opening outward.
Lilioid monocots
The lilioid monocots are a group of five orders of flowering plants, including Liliales and Asparagales, holding most showy six-tepaled monocots once placed in the lily family.
Lilium
Lilium, the true lilies, is a genus of about 124 accepted bulbous flowering plants in Liliaceae, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, classified into Comber's seven sections, with East Asia as its diversity center and major horticultural hybrid groups.
Lilium 'Stargazer'
The Stargazer lily (Lilium 'Stargazer') is an Oriental hybrid lily bred by Leslie Woodriff in California in 1974, the first Oriental lily with upward-facing crimson, pink-edged flowers.
Lilium candidum
Lilium candidum, the Madonna lily or white lily, an eastern Mediterranean bulbous lily (Kew POWO), fragrant erect white trumpet flowers, Minoan frescoes c. 1600 BC, Virgin Mary's flower, bulbs used for shingles.
Lilium lancifolium
Lilium lancifolium, the tiger lily (syn. Lilium tigrinum), is a bulbous lily native from the Russian Far East to Japan and Tibet. Sterile triploid garden clone spreading by axillary bulbils; bulbs are official in Chinese Pharmacopoeia as Lilii Bulbus.
Lilium longiflorum (テッポウユリ)
Lilium longiflorum (テッポウユリ), the Easter lily or trumpet lily, is a white trumpet-flowered lily native to the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and the Philippines, forced for Easter sales and highly toxic to cats.
Lilium martagon
Lilium martagon, the martagon or Turk's cap lily (Turk's-cap lily), is a Eurasian bulbous lily described by Linnaeus in 1753, with nodding, recurved, spotted pink-purple flowers, native from SW and Central Europe to Mongolia.
Lily of the valley
Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) is a perennial flowering plant in the asparagus family, native to Europe and the Caucasus, grown for its fragrant white spring flowers.
Lima bean
Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.), also called butter bean or Pallar, a Phaseolus legume domesticated separately in the Andes and Mesoamerica, heat- and drought-tolerant, with cyanogenic glucosides in seeds.
Lime (fruit)
Lime (fruit): acidic green citrus from several Citrus species, chiefly key lime (Citrus aurantifolia, citron × C. micrantha hybrid) and seedless triploid Persian lime (C. latifolia); 15 Mt lime-and-lemon production, U.S. supply ~97% from Mexico.
Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima, the wood apple tree, is a spiny citrus-family tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Andaman Islands, grown for its hard-shelled aromatic fruit.
Limonium
Limonium (sea lavender, statice) is a Plumbaginaceae genus of about 600-650 salt-tolerant species, Mediterranean-centered recretohalophytes with salt glands, including cut-flower statice L. sinuatum and many threatened endemics.
Linaceae
Linaceae, the flax family, is a cosmopolitan family of about 9 genera and 280 species in the order Malpighiales, including Linum, the source of linen and linseed oil.
Linaria vulgaris
Linaria vulgaris (yellow toadflax, butter-and-eggs, common toadflax) is a Eurasian perennial plantain with yellow spurred snapdragon-like flowers, invasive in North America via seeds and root buds, noxious in 10 U.S. states.
Lindera
Lindera (spicebush) is a genus of about 100 aromatic trees and shrubs in Lauraceae, native from Asia to Queensland and eastern North America, with dioecious umbellate flowers, 2-celled anthers, and uses in medicine, timber, and horticulture.
Linum
Linum (flax genus), Linaceae, a genus of about 215 accepted species of herbs with showy blue, yellow, pink, red, or white flowers; includes cultivated flax Linum usitatissimum, source of linen and linseed oil.
Liparis
Liparis is a large, cosmopolitan orchid genus (Orchidaceae, Malaxideae) of terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, established 1817, type species L. loeselii; molecular studies show it is polyphyletic.
Lippia
Lippia L. (Verbenaceae, tribe Lantaneae), genus of aromatic herbs and shrubs established by Linnaeus in 1753, native to tropical and southern Africa and tropical and subtropical America; dry two-nutlet fruits, not monophyletic with Lantana, used in traditional medicine and herbal teas.
Lippia alba
Lippia alba (bushy lippia, bushy matgrass, erva-cidreira), Verbenaceae, is an aromatic American shrub used in traditional medicine as a sedative and digestive remedy, with seven essential-oil chemotypes (citral, carvone, linalool) and inclusion in the Brazilian Pharmacopeia.
Liquidambar
Liquidambar, sweetgums, genus of resinous deciduous trees in Altingiaceae with 15 species disjunct across Asia, Turkey, and the Americas; includes American sweetgum L. styraciflua.
Liquidambar styraciflua
Liquidambar styraciflua, the American sweetgum or alligatorwood, is a large deciduous tree of eastern North America with star-shaped five-lobed leaves and spiky ball-shaped fruit that persist through winter.
Liquorice
Liquorice (licorice), Glycyrrhiza glabra, also called gan cao or sweet root: a Fabaceae perennial herb whose glycyrrhizin-rich rhizomes flavor candy, tobacco, and root beer, and whose excess consumption raises blood pressure and lowers potassium.
Liriodendron
Liriodendron (tulip tree, tulip poplar) is a genus of two Magnoliaceae tree species, L. tulipifera of eastern North America and L. chinense of China and Vietnam, with saddle-shaped leaves and tulip-like flowers.
Liriodendron tulipifera
Liriodendron tulipifera, the tulip poplar or yellow poplar, is a fast-growing eastern North American hardwood tree reaching up to 200 feet, valued for furniture wood.
List of apple cultivars (A–K)
List of apple cultivars (A–K): named grafted varieties of Malus domestica from Akane, Braeburn, Cortland, Fuji, Gala, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, and Jazz to Koutaro, with origins, parentage, harvest timing, and club-variety status.
List of banana cultivars
Banana cultivars are the roughly 1,000 named edible varieties of the genus Musa, classified by genome groups including the Cavendish dessert and plantain cooking bananas.
List of Capsicum cultivars
List of Capsicum cultivars: named pepper varieties across the five domesticated Capsicum species (annuum, chinense, frutescens, baccatum, pubescens), covering bell, hot, ornamental, and disease-resistant cultivars such as California Wonder, Paladin, and Nitro S10.
List of common trees and shrubs of Sri Lanka
List of common trees and shrubs of Sri Lanka: a 704-species, 95-family checklist based on Ashton et al.'s 1997 Field Guide, marking native (N) and introduced (I) species, with home-garden and rainforest tree data.
List of culinary fruits
Culinary fruits: sweet or acidic edible plant products, distinct from botanical fruits. Includes tropical fruits (banana, mango, papaya), temperate fruits (apple, peach, cherry), berries, and grapes; earliest domesticated were olive, grape, date, fig.